Now we’ve been allowed to make “Cell-fies”: or portraits of celebs created from their own bacteria. You might have seen them gracing the pages of Metro this morning – who doesn’t love a Metro Page 3 story, eh?

The brief back story is that we’ve been work with Zach Copfer, the world’s first (and only) Bacteriographer.

The “bacteriographs” are made from the subjects’ own cells. To make them, Zach exposes areas of a Petridish to radiation to stimulate the bacteria’s growth. This creates a photograph grown entirely from the bacteria itself. Zachary is the only person in the world practicing this art and it’s the first time his work has been brought to the UK.